Discord

CSS uses Discord as our main community platform. We have a Moderation Document which outlines how we handle incidents in Discord.

See also: TeX Bot

The most important roles we have are Guest and Member. The Guest role is the one that actually has permissions and is given to users upon being inducted. This is the role that allows users to see the channels and be able to send messages. The Member role is purely cosmetic, but has a minor difference in permissions, as it gives users access to the “colours” channel which is where they can select a different name colour.

Before users are given access to the server they must introduce themselves. Generally we require they give a name and course as a minimum, but how strict you want to be with this is up to the committee of the day. Once a satisfactory introduction has been sent in the introductions channel, the user should be inducted via TeX.

To do this, you can:

• Right click the username → Apps → TeX → Induct User
• Right click the message → Apps → TeX → Induct Message Author
• Manually use the `/induct` command, and provide the username of the user you want to induct

All of the above options do the same thing, they are just different methods of triggering the same process.

Additionally, members have the option to bypass introduction by using the make-member command, and providing their student ID. By doing this, the bot will automatically check their membership status and if successful, will give the user both the Member role and also the Guest role.

Discord has a built-in message forwarding function, but it lacks a lot of features that help with moderation action, so TeX has it's own “Send Message to Committee” command. This can be accessed by right clicking a message you want to report → Apps → TeX → Send Message to Committee. This will then send the message and a few other details to the Discord channel.